Alexandria, Virginia: Jean Berrard, 1987. Quarto in wrappers, [xiii], 146 pages. FIRST & ONLY EDITION. A cookbook and memoir by a chef who grew up in his family's hotel in the small town of Artemare Haute Savoie and followed in his father's footsteps when his father retired in 1955. The author describes life under Nazi occupation. Berrard's admirers included Simca Beck, Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas. Pen mark roughly.....
New York: Alfred Knopf, 1929. Small octavo, 203 pages + 4 ads. First edition. A delightful survey of the history of oysters, along with an anthology of oyster appearances in literary and historical quotation, and a small selection of fine recipes. Bolitho was a prolific author, penning 59 non-fiction works of mostly biography. Royalty was his specialty, as for many years he lived at Windsor Castle, and it was while.....
N.p. Liebig; Maron-Esperonnier, Imp. [circa 1950s]. Small, accordion fold booklet (13.5 x 11 cm.), [8] pages. Text in Italian. Promotional booklet for the Liebig company's various bottled sauces, including Sauce Madere, Sauce Perigueux, Sauce Chasseur, Sauce Americaine, and Sauce Italienne. The booklet includes twenty-six recipes, attributed here to the famous medical doctor and gastronome Edouard de Pomiane, pseudonym of Édouard Pozerski. The little booklet is printed by the lithographers, Maron-Esperonnier.....
[Portland, Conn. The Church, circa 1910]. Octavo (23 x 15.5 cm.), 32 pages. Title from cover. Date of publication undetermined. Includes blank pages. Evident FIRST EDITION. A compact church cookbook, approaching two hundred brief recipes, all of them attributed; containing almost entirely baked goods, puddings, pies, and preserves. Commonplaces, to be sure, but also: Squash Biscuits, Green Tomato Pie, Huckleberry Pudding, Poached Apples, and two versions of Pear Chips (with.....
New York: Chamberlain, Roe & Co., [late 19th century]. 16 x 27 cm label. Printed in red and black. A diamond shaped label for 19th century New York Lard Refiners and Provision Dealers, Chamberlain, Roe & Co. Leaf lard is the highest grade of lard, prepared here “expressly for family use”, leaf lard has minimal pork flavor and is ideal for its use in baked goods. Fine.
Biddeford, Maine: Rabelais Inc., 2018. Volume one only (all published to date). Small quarto (26.5 x 19 cm.), 169 pages. Illustrated throughout in color. Title Index. Bibliography. Designed and with a letterpressed wrapper by Scott Vile of the Ascensius Press in Bar Mills, Maine. FIRST EDITION. ~ ~ The first volume in a long-term effort to examine AMERICAN COMMUNITY COOKBOOKS as a genre, within a context of other cookbooks which.....
Providence, R.I. Maine Creamery Co. Ice Cream, [circa 1915]. Booklet, stapled in wrappers (15.7 x 8 cm.), [12] pages, including wrappers. Illustrated throughout, in four-color spot printing on newsprint. An advertising pamphlet with popular nursery rhymes rewritten to promote ice cream. Evidently published for hire by various ice cream producers, which including this one, the Maine Creamery Co., of Providence, R.I. There are institutional holdings of this book issued by.....
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Philadelphia: North Brothers Mfg. Co., 1895. Duodecimo-sized booklet, 104 pages. Later printing, originally issued 1890. Another of the many books of Sarah Tyson Rorer, Director of the Philadelphia Cooking School, and author of Mrs. Rorer's Cook Book. The book's publishers were the manufacturers of the Gem Freezer, and ice cream maker, and the recipes are for ice creams and ices. Also includes descriptions with illustrations, of a variety of kitchen.....
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New York: Frank Tousey, Publishe (sic), 1884. Stapled booklet with printed wrappers. 60, [4] pages. First edition. The author is supplied by the LOC records. Warford was the author of a long list of “How To” books in fields as varied as cookery, magic, religious belief and more. With an LOC copyright stamp to the titles page and wrappers, both dated August 22, 1884. Small chip missing from rear panel.....
London: Printed for R. Blamire, Strand, 1791. Quarto, [2] lx, 137, [1 blank] pages. First edition. Illustrated with two aquatints, 'A Saxon Entertainment", and "The Peacock Feast" (the later double-paged). Engraved title page. Warner was a prominent English antiquarian and divine. This work was one of the first to examine the history of early English cookery, at the forefront of a scholarly movement that developed over the last three centuries.....